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I just can't believe that Graham was killed off. I liked his character and like where the episode was going with he and Emma, but his destiny was foretold in "the land that was".

Henry was definitely right about Emma - she's got the magic touch alright.

It was also interesting that present-day Rumpelstiltskin was trying to help Graham remember, or at least prodding him to try. I do wonder what he was doing in the forest with a heavy-duty apron and a shovel though.

I've just about caught up with Once Upon a Time (all but Sunday's episode) and have really been impressed with how intelligently this show has evolved. The characters are developing nicely and the stories are getting more complex.

I think this is now my favorite new show of the season.

.................... There are none so blind as those who can not see it in HD........... Directv customer since January 2000...........

I have to say, I was a skeptic about a show on Disney's ABC about a bunch of Disney fairy tale characters. But the shows creators/writers/producers Adam Horowitz And Edward Kitsis have done a good job worthy of their extensive resumés. And the actors are outstanding.

"In a hundred years there'll be a whole new set of people."
"Always poke the bears. They sleep too much for their own good."

I'm was wondering why the kid can see the curse. Why is *he* not blinded by backstory? Then it hit me that he must have been born 'outside' the curse - and they mentioned he was born in prison. So this begs the question as to WHY the mayor adopted him? I wondered if the mayor even KNEW she was the Queen but that question was answered without question at the mausoleum. So why introduce someone/something from the outside? And how did Emma end up outside Storybrooke? I mean, being put in the wardrobe must have something to do with it - but, again, if Emma escaped (and clearly had no knowledge of Storybrooke or from whence it came), why bring her kid back to Storybrooke?

...and then, how did the kid make the connection between the book that Snow gave him and all the people in the town?

Up until the mausoleum scene, I assumed the Queen also suffered from amnesia like the others, and I still prefer to think of it that way. It makes her more human - someone who is deeply wounded rather than just plain evil. So maybe she doesn't fully know or understand the power she wields.

Her adoption of Henry plays into her obsessive need to control everyone related to the fairytale world. So even though Henry and Emma are a threat, she would rather keep them in Storybrook than have them in the free world.

.................... There are none so blind as those who can not see it in HD........... Directv customer since January 2000...........

And you're right of course... but is she really evil? Is anyone really evil? Or is she still deeply flawed to the point where her judgment has become critically skewed? That's one of the good things about this show, that it allows you to think along those lines.

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Evil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. Evil is usually seen as the dualistic opposite of The Good. Definitions of evil vary, as does the analysis of its root motives and causes; however, evil is commonly associated with conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological well-being and dignity, destructiveness, and acts of unnecessary or indiscriminate violence. The philosophical question of whether morality is absolute or relative leads to questions about the nature of evil, with views falling into one of four opposed camps: moral absolutism, amoralism, moral relativism, and moral universalism.

I guess this was an act of violence, but if it was "necessary" and "discriminate" in her mind I guess it might not be "evil."

"In a hundred years there'll be a whole new set of people."
"Always poke the bears. They sleep too much for their own good."

I'm interested in hearing what Snow White supposedly did that prevented E.Q. from ever loving or being happy again. The EQ is quick to blam Snow without explaining exactly what it was - classic symptom of someone trying to transfer blame.

So far, my wife's theory is that the EQ was jealous over not being able to have ALL of her husband's (Snow's father) love - that she was not able to break the special bond between a child and parent.